Regional variation in rural transition in India

The dramatic decline in the share of agriculture in India’s gross domestic product from 52 percent in 1950–1951 to less than 17 percent in 2017–2018 necessarily implies a decline in the amount of labor this sector can employ. However, agriculture continues to be the largest employer in the country. Even when workers move out of the agricultural sector, they do not always leave rural areas. The movement from an agrarian economy to a non-agrarian one in India has not been matched by the expected shift from rural areas to urban areas. The macro scenario facing the country is that of low agricultural productivity, slow urbanization rates, and huge surplus labor in rural areas. But within this overall national picture, are there variations in terms of movement of labor away from agriculture? Are there more than one rural transition patterns being observed in the country? Are there contiguous areas in the country with a specific transition pattern which is common for a region? To answer these questions, this paper first takes a closer look at different types of transitions observed in the country. It then goes on to map the regions where workers have moved into agriculture, moved out of agriculture but remain in rural areas, and left the rural areas altogether respectively, in addition to regions with a prominent place for marginal workers

ILC Reference Design Report Volume 1 - Executive Summary

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a 200-500 GeV center-of-mass high-luminosity linear electron-positron collider, based on 1.3 GHz superconducting radio-frequency (SCRF) accelerating cavities. The ILC has a total footprint of about 31 km and is designed for a peak luminosity of 2x10^34 cm^-2s^-1. This report is the Executive Summary (Volume I) of the four volume Reference Design Report. It gives an overview of the physics at the ILC, the accelerator design and value estimate, the detector concepts, and the next steps towards project realization.The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a 200-500 GeV center-of-mass high-luminosity linear electron-positron collider, based on 1.3 GHz superconducting radio-frequency (SCRF) accelerating cavities. The ILC has a total footprint of about 31 km and is designed for a peak luminosity of 2x10^34 cm^-2s^-1. This report is the Executive Summary (Volume I) of the four volume Reference Design Report. It gives an overview of the physics at the ILC, the accelerator design and value estimate, the detector concepts, and the next steps towards project realization